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Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

· Legendary Planeswalker — Nixilis · War of the Spark (WAR)

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Times Brought

336

Decks Running

177

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Legendary Planeswalker — Nixilis

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis deals 1 damage to that player. −2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

Loyalty 5

War of the Spark (WAR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Yongjae Choi

Final zone distribution

71 instances

4.2%

Library

36.6%

Battlefield

19.7%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 58 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 43 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 20 decks
4 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 6 decks
5 Horobi, Death's Wail 3 decks
6 Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent 2 decks
7 Massacre Girl, Most Wanted 2 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 2 decks
9 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 2 decks
10 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

336 brought · 167 players

Brought to game

336

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=26) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=199).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=21).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +21.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

18%

61%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 27% (2 / 33 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.